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...news on Sunday, the Socialist implosion became personal. The party's presidential candidate, S?gol?ne Royal announced her separation from her long-time life partner, PS leader Fran?ois Hollande. Their relationship had reportedly been rocky in Royal's loss to Sarkozy - members of her campaign team placed much of the blame for her defeat on Hollande. Royal said she would seek to win leadership of the party from the father of her children...
...hand-to-hand combat, the American worker would lose to a band of sleepy preschoolers. Only 15% of workers exercise enough, and 40% don't attempt so much as a sit-up. More than half blame work, with 8 in 10 grousing that they would hit the treadmill--really they would--if only their employers encouraged...
...blame us for it? Social Security is endangered. Job security is a quaint memory. Upward social mobility is failing. (A new study by the Economic Mobility Project finds that American men in their 30s are worse off financially than their fathers.) Real estate may not offer double-digit returns anymore, but it does offer an atavistic promise of security, a nest egg embodied in Sheetrock that you can touch and dirt that can't be outsourced to Mumbai. Property fever is in our blood: this country made its fortune in sweet real estate deals--a Louisiana Purchase here...
...something of a political chameleon, easygoing and businesslike when he needs to impress his conservative constituents and, since Hurricane Katrina, capable of a fiery, defiant oratory that has endeared him to a lot of African-Americans who are still struggling to get their lives back together - and who blame much of their difficulties on the state and federal governments...
This latest attempt to convert the bill's opponents comes as Democrats and Republicans both spent the past week volleying blame back and forth. After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Democrat from Nevada, pulled the bill from debate last Thursday night (following a failed attempt to end debate), Republicans pointed to that action as evidence of the Democrats' lack of genuine interest in the legislation. Democrats, on the other hand, complained the G.O.P had slowed down the bill's progress with a litany of amendments. Thursday night, however, the group of Senators that have shepherded this bill agreed...